Now Red Hood Is a Hero, It's Time for His Twisted Robin to Return
Now that the Red Hood is trying to walk a more noble path, it's time he takes the next step in his superhero career and faces his dark version of Robin, the brutal vigilante Scarlet.
After coming back to life, Jason Todd carried a deep grudge over his beating and death at the hands of the Joker in the «Death of the Family» story arc. His initial time back in the land of the living was marked by a spree of brutality to show how much more effective he was at stopping crime using the lethal methods the Bat-Family refuses to employ. As the Red Hood, he became one of the most ferocious antiheroes in the DC Universe. But as time went on and his family intervened, he slowly began to move away from killing. Red Hood still has other hardcore fighting techniques, but he has sworn off guns and made a concentrated effort to curb his worst impulses and avoid ending the lives of Gotham's villains.
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While it's a good thing Jason has tried taking a step back from killing, he's got one loose end he really need to address. In Batman and Robin #3 by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, Jason comes across Sasha, a young woman who has been mutilated, along with her father, by Professor Pyg. Todd offers her a chance to channel the rage she feels by taking her on as his new partner. With the new identity of Scarlet, she becomes an integral part of Red Hood's new campaign to be Gotham's number one protector after Batman is presumed dead. Jason trains Sasha to fight and gives her a pair of blades, turning her into as much a ruthless killer as he is. With Scarlet's assistance, Red Hood is able to take out more villains and mob figures than he ever did on his own.
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